Babies Can Distinguish Toys Based on Gender

Can you distinguish a toy baby girl or boy? It turned out perfectly. In a room filled with dozens of children, a baby boy will be swiftly chose toy cars while female babies calmly took the doll. Before a child can crawl, trends are like a growing suspicion in society, that boys liked the robot-woman or toy cars and dolls.

In the study researchers gave seven different toys, and found the boys prefer toy car, digger, and the ball as well as ignoring the teddy bear. While the girls chose a teddy bear, toy-cooking dishes or other miniature colorful.

"Given that boys prefer toys that can walk or move while girls love the toys that have facial features or related to parenting," says Sara Amalie OToole Thommessen from City University in London, as quoted from Health24, Tuesday (20 / 4 / 2010).

In this study involving 83 children aged 9 months to 3 years and observed during three minutes of play time. Previously, researchers surveyed 300 adults to ask what the toy that came to mind first when dealing with gender. Approximately 90 percent said cars for boys and dolls for girls.

"We are very interested to see if the boys have different preferences about color. We offer pink and blue teddy bears, but these children did not show interest in the teddy bear at all," said Thommessen.

Based on this study found girls aged 27-36 months approximately 50 percent are interested in dolls and boys about 87 percent are interested in cars than the ball. These results increase the perception of choice of sex toys ever conducted on the study in 2001. However, socialization and environmental impacts also could not be ignored, because the selection of children's toys that can also be based on what is often seen by the child.

While still a baby, a father will tend to be more actively invited joking son, while the girls spent more time to talk. When older men more actively encouraged to explore the environment, while girls are encouraged to play quietly. This makes the boys more like cars, robots or other moving toys, while girls prefer things that have facial features or the game of parenting.